Comments on: Associated Press Using Twitter, Blog to Cover Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings http://www.slaw.ca/2009/07/10/associated-press-using-twitter-blog-to-cover-sotomayor-confirmation-hearings/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Connie Crosby http://www.slaw.ca/2009/07/10/associated-press-using-twitter-blog-to-cover-sotomayor-confirmation-hearings/comment-page-1/#comment-705672 Connie Crosby Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:26:27 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=10117#comment-705672 Hi John: Thank you for pointing it out. I have been of course going by what is being said in the mainstream media, and hadn't heard any arguments against this fact. That being said, the more diversity the better in my opinion so in this regard at least her appointment is a good thing. Hi John: Thank you for pointing it out. I have been of course going by what is being said in the mainstream media, and hadn't heard any arguments against this fact.

That being said, the more diversity the better in my opinion so in this regard at least her appointment is a good thing.

]]> By: John Nymat http://www.slaw.ca/2009/07/10/associated-press-using-twitter-blog-to-cover-sotomayor-confirmation-hearings/comment-page-1/#comment-705667 John Nymat Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:50:16 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=10117#comment-705667 Pardon me for going off a bit on a tangent... <a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/05/26/would-sotomayor-be-the-first-hispanic-supreme-court-justice-or-was-it-cardozo.html" rel="nofollow">There are some who contend that Benjamin Cardozo was in fact the first Hispanic justice of the United States Supreme Court.</a> It all comes down to your definition of the term "Hispanic." In any event it is clear that Sotomayor will not be the first justice with ancestral ties to the Iberian Peninsula. Pardon me for going off a bit on a tangent… There are some who contend that Benjamin Cardozo was in fact the first Hispanic justice of the United States Supreme Court. It all comes down to your definition of the term "Hispanic." In any event it is clear that Sotomayor will not be the first justice with ancestral ties to the Iberian Peninsula.

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